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Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?

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Post by rl3 » Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 8:51 AM UTC

TheWiseOne wrote: post #49

I use Bvckup 2 ( https://bvckup2.com/ ) to backup on to a 4 TB external drive. I also have Duplicati ( https://www.duplicati.com/ ) running to backup those backups onto OneDrive and Backblaze.

Just chiming in here to say bvckup2 is awesome. It's one of those rare pieces of software that has rock-solid engineering. My heart warms with glee every time I think about it.

I've been using it in place of robocopy for all my Windows backup needs for a while now, with rsync for linux. It's fast.

Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?

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Post by corv » Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 4:27 PM UTC

corv wrote: post #19

Two FreeNAS servers on premises and in different locations with ZFS replication. Then use SMB, NFS, Time Machine, rsync, Syncthing, sftp or anything else you like to push data to one of the FreeNAS machines. Periodic ZFS snapshots prevent common cases of PEBCAK and ransomware. Fully redundant, encrypted & open-source solution that can saturate 10GbE!

Just wanted to leave this excellent tool here for those replicating ZFS:

https://github.com/zrepl/zrepl

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